US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) plans to postpone the implementation of a new cargo manifest processing system by at least six months, according to Louis Samenfink, the executive director of the cargo systems programme office.
"We built it, but it's just not working. We simply can't risk deploying something at the ports and railheads that doesn't work properly," he said.
The agency was scheduled to deploy the electronic manifest function for ocean and rail carriers in mid-to-late October as part of the US$3.3 billion build-out of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the information technology system being developed to replace existing programmes that monitor, control and expedite commercial imports and exports, reports the American Shipper.
The new processing system is now expected to start in April at the earliest, in order to fix software problems and allow sufficient time for external testing by the trade to make sure commercial systems are compatible with the system's new data requirements and messaging, Mr Samenfink was cited as saying in the report.
"We built it, but it's just not working. We simply can't risk deploying something at the ports and railheads that doesn't work properly," he said.
The agency was scheduled to deploy the electronic manifest function for ocean and rail carriers in mid-to-late October as part of the US$3.3 billion build-out of its Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the information technology system being developed to replace existing programmes that monitor, control and expedite commercial imports and exports, reports the American Shipper.
The new processing system is now expected to start in April at the earliest, in order to fix software problems and allow sufficient time for external testing by the trade to make sure commercial systems are compatible with the system's new data requirements and messaging, Mr Samenfink was cited as saying in the report.